I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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